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40 items
J.W. Colton's Choice Cooking Recipes, Preparations and Calendar for 1876-77
- Centennial Cook Book
- 1876
This cookbook produced by J.W. Colton was possibly distributed at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition given it is entitled "Centennial Cook Book" and features an illustration of the medal awarded to J.W. Colton for fruit…
- Author Colton, J.W. (Firm)
- Subject Cooking, American, Cooking, Cookbooks, Centennial Exhibition, Quacks and quackery
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328 items
Neft︠i︡ana︠i︡a promyshlennostʹ v s︠i︡evero-amerikanskom shtat︠i︡e Pensilʹvanīi i na Kavkaze
- The Oil Industry in the North American State of Pennsylvania and the Caucasus
- 1877
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev (1834-1907) traveled to the United States in 1876 to visit the booming oil industry in western Pennsylvania. During his visit, he studied rock formations in the area, visited oil refineries,…
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30 items
The Horsford Cook Book
- Circa 1877
Pocket-sized cookbook features recipes using Horsford baking powder including recipes for biscuits, rolls, muffins and short cakes.
- Publisher Rumford Chemical Works
- Subject Baking, Baking powder, Cooking, Rumford Chemical Works, Recipes, Baked products, Baked products industry
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3 items
A Memorial of Joseph Henry
- 1880
A memorial written for Joseph Henry, who served as secretary for the National Institute for the Promotion of Science, the precursor of the Smithsonian Institution, and then became the first Secretary of the Smithsonian…
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32 items
Indigo MLB auf Baumwolle : Indigo MLB on Cotton
- After 1880 – before 1925
This sample book begins with a selection of recipes for the preparation of dye vats. Each recipe lists the solvents and solutes necessary to mix large-volume solutions of indigo textile dye using Indigo M.L.B. brand…
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L'air
- 1880
A second edition French volume of L'Air containing 95 engravings. The volume is an informational overview of the Earth's atmosphere: the materiality of air, the formation of rain and thunderstorms, winds, the…
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20 items
The Misogynist Dinner of the American Chemical Society
- 1880-Aug-27
This pamphlet covers the events of a formal dinner that took place on August 27, 1880 in Boston, Massachusetts following the 29th Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The dinner was for…
- Author American Chemical Society
- Editor Morton, Henry, 1836-1902
- Publisher Russell Brothers
- Subject Chemists, Anecdotes, Chemistry--Societies, etc., American Chemical Society, Misogyny, Sexism in science, Sexism
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32 items
Coffee: From Plantation to Cup. A Brief History of Coffee Production and Consumption.
- 1881
Volume providing a brief history of coffee production and consumption around the world. Intended for dealers and consumers alike, the work contains chapters on coffee cultivation, preparation, the chemical analysis of…
- Author Thurber, Francis B. (Francis Beatty), 1842-1907
- Publisher American Grocer Publishing Association
- Subject Coffee, Coffee industry, Coffee brewing equipment industry, Coffee roasting industry, Coffee industry--Employees, Coffee brewing, Plantations, Tropical crops, Agriculture, Plantation workers, Agricultural laborers, Thurber, Francis B. (Francis Beatty), 1842-1907
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7 items
The New Text-book of Chemistry for Use in High Schools and Academies
- 1881
An illustrated volume written to provide an elementary course of chemistry suited for high-school students. The volume consists of four chapters covering the General Principles of Chemistry, Non-Metallic Elements,…
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21 items
An Instruction Book in the Art of Silk Culture
- 1882
An instruction book compiled by the Women's Silk Culture Association to encourage the development of an industry in the United States for the culture of raw silk. The book was compiled from various authorities on…
- Author Women's Silk Culture Association
- Subject Silk industry, Silk, Sericulture, Women--Employment
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20 items
Plant Life
- Home College Series Number 53
- 1883
Characterized by a religious Christian tone, the publication provides an overview of plants geared towards a general audience. Includes a microbiological discussion of plant cells and some discussion of plant taxonomy…
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The Fairy-Land of Science
- 1883
Arabella Burton Buckley (1840-1929) was a writer and science educator who championed Darwinian evolution as opposed to the contemporary emphasis on competition and physical survival. This work, one of Buckley's…
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55 items
Chemistry, Developed by Facts and Principles Drawn Chiefly from the Non-Metals
- 1884
Intended as an introduction to the study of chemistry, this volume contains illustrations throughout the text including color plates. Color plates have been digitized along with a selection of illustrations.
- Author Appleton, John Howard, 1844-1930
- Publisher Providence Lithograph Company
- Subject Chemistry, Textbooks, Science--Study and teaching
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156 items
The Dyer's Practical Guide : A Treatise on the Art of Dyeing Wool, Shoddy and Cotton
- 1884
Treatise containing "practical knowledge" on dyeing for manufacturers, with sections on mordants, chemicals used in dyeing, wool scouring, extracting cotton from wool, and 253 dye recipes for wool, cotton, and shoddy…
- Author Sherry, Frank
- Publisher Franklin Steam Printing House
- Subject Dyes and dyeing, Dyes and dyeing--Wool, Dyes and dyeing--Cotton, Formulas, recipes, etc.
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15 items
Drugs and medicines of North America
- A quarterly devoted to the historical and scientific discussion of the botany, pharmacy, chemistry and the therapeutics of the medicinal plants of North America, their constituents, products and sophistications
- 1884-Apr – 1887-Jun
Select plates digitized including drawings of plant specimens, maps illustrating locale of plant specimens as well as magnified illustrations of plant parts.
- Creator Of Work Lloyd, C. G. (Curtis Gates), 1859-1926, Lloyd, John Uri, 1849-1936
- Subject Botany, Medical, Phytogeography, Pharmacy, Drugs, Materia medica
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53 items
Micro-Chemistry of Poisons
- 1885
Frontismatter and plates have been digitized from this volume on poisonous substances. Chromolithographed frontispiece plate illustrates blood spectra. Digitized plates depict various poisonous substances under…
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A Manual of Vegetable Materia Medica
- 1886
This manual identifies plants used for medicinal purposes. The focus is on plants that can be acquired through commerce in Britain and are illustrated as they would have been imported and bought, for example the opium…
- Author Wills, George S. V.
- Publisher Simpkin, Marshall and Co.
- Subject Botany, Medical, Medicinal plants, Materia medica, Vegetable
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14 items
Dr. T. Taylor's reply to "Science", relating to the crystals of butter, animal fats, and oleomargarine
- 1886
This reprint is Dr. Thomas Taylor's reply to the magazine "Science" relating to his heavily disputed method of analyzing fats for adulteration. Dr. Thomas (1820-1910) was appointed in 1871 Microscopist to the United…
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The Techno-chemical Receipt Book
- Containing several thousand receipts, covering the latest, most important and most useful discoveries in chemical technology, and their practical application in the arts and the industries
- 1886
An extensive recipe book, principally derived from German technical literature, includes "an accurate and compendious collection of approved receipts and processes of practical application in the [chemical] industries…
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36 items
Delaware River Chemical Works
- 1887
Pamphlet containing product lists and descriptions of the various phosphate fertilizers manufactured by Baugh & Sons Company at the Delaware River Chemical Works facility.
Baugh & Sons Company was founded in 1855 by…
- Author Baugh and Sons Company. Fertilizer Department
- Publisher Arms & Mitchell
- Contributor Delaware River Chemical Works
- Subject Fertilizers, Bone-meal, Baugh and Sons Company, Delaware River Chemical Works, United States--Delaware River, Fertilizer industry, Baugh Chemical Company (Baltimore, Md.), Rivers, Phosphates, Fertilizer industry
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400 items
Fairy Land of Chemistry: Explorations in the World of Atoms
- Real Fairy Folks
- 1887
Lucy Jane Rider Meyer (1849-1922) was an American social worker and educator who worked to provide health and social services for the poor, children, and elderly. A graduate of Oberlin College (class of 1872), Lucy…
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346 items
Popular Zoology
- 1887
Designed to give students an understanding of the animal worlds, Popular Zoology describes and identifies the animals in two kingdoms of nature: the Invertebrates and the Vertebrates. The volume includes copious…
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40 items
The Horsford 1887 Almanac and Cook Book
- 1887
Published by Rumford Chemical Works, this almanac features advertisements for Professor Horsford's baking powder and acid phosphate along with other products manufactured by Rumford Chemical Works. Also includes…
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52 items
Price-List Analytical Laboratory and Assay Office of Gideon E. Moore
- 1888
Sections include:
A.—Qualitative analyses. Ores, minerals, etc.
B.—Assays for, and quantitative determinations of, single constituents.
C.—Assays and analyses of fuel, ores, minerals, technical materials and products,…- Author Moore, Gideon E.
- Publisher Rankin, John C., Jr.
- Subject Metals, Moore, Gideon E., Analytical chemistry, Rankin, John C., Jr., Assaying
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2 items
Catalogue of Chemical and Physical Apparatus and Chemicals
- 1889
Catalog for chemical apparatus produced by Philip Harris & Co., now Philip Harris Ltd., a British laboratory supply company that became a major supplier of equipment for school science. The brand name is now owned by…